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The months of November and March see the second highest average number of tornadoes annually in the state of Mississippi behind April, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. Between 1950 and 2012, Mississippi was struck by 229 tornadoes in the month of November.

"We saw how effective preparedness can be during the Pine Belt tornadoes back in February as hundreds of homes were destroyed, but there was not one death," said MEMA Director Robert Latham. "When our citizens know what to do, lives are saved and all we have to do is go in and help with rebuilding."

About 80 percent of November tornadoes in Mississippi happen at night, weather officials said. More than half of the tornadoes in December and January have also occurred at night.

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